From: The Guardian
Court injunction brought in by oil and gas company makes even supermarkets off-limits for Vera Scroggins.
January 29, 2014
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| Anti-fracking activist Vera Scroggins, left, talks with Yoko Ono,
center, and Sean Lennon at a fracking site in Franklin Forks,
Pennsylvania. Photograph: Richard Drew/AP |
Vera Scroggins, an outspoken opponent of fracking, is legally barred
from the new county hospital. Also off-limits, unless Scroggins wants to
risk fines and arrest, are the Chinese restaurant where she takes her
grandchildren, the supermarkets and drug stores where she shops, the
animal shelter where she adopted her Yorkshire terrier, bowling alley,
recycling centre, golf club, and lake shore.
In total, 312.5 sq miles are no-go areas for Scroggins under a
sweeping court order granted by a local judge that bars her from any
properties owned or leased by one of the biggest drillers in the Pennsylvania natural gas rush, Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation.
"They might as well have put an ankle bracelet on me with a GPS on it and be able to track me wherever I go," Scroggins said. "I feel like I am some kind of a prisoner, that my rights have been curtailed, have been restricted." MORE
"They might as well have put an ankle bracelet on me with a GPS on it and be able to track me wherever I go," Scroggins said. "I feel like I am some kind of a prisoner, that my rights have been curtailed, have been restricted." MORE
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